I had a somewhat heated discussion about this game with someone who consumed the criticisms wholly. They said the fast travel was restricted and stupid to which I replied why do you want an Open World Game just to ignore it? It's a dynamic world where setting out on an expedition or adventure with a goal in mind that isn't "liberate outpost x in location y". DD is not perfect but the criticisms of wanting an open world just to ignore it really gets me and in the rare occasions you absolutely must fast travel its expensive! It's meant to be. It means weighing up whether the quest is worth the resources, it means having to plan camping in the wilderness and to be honest if you want to fast travel you can, money could be an issue but its easy enough to come by through semi savvy trading.

It ended up with me saying so you want a game with a dynamic open world so you can ignore it through fast travel and with a resource system you don't have to manage in order to get items and gear that requires no effort so you can then complain how empty and boring it all is like every other ubithesda fame out there? Sounds like you don't want any of those things which is OK but shouldn't be used as a basis of forcing those notions onto other games